CoreOS Reviews
71% would recommend to a friend
(10 total reviews)
Alex Polvi
78% approve of CEO
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Updated Jun 19, 2023
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- 5.0Jun 19, 2023MarketingFormer Employee, more than 1 yearSan Francisco, CA
Pros
1. Good OSS roots 2. Created a vast community of users 3. Added value to commercialize
Cons
1. Too big a marketing team - changing over to commercial was a cultural shift
- 5.0Dec 3, 2017Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee
Pros
Amazingly smart people. Company with a purpose. Inventing the future of containerized infrastructure. Highly virtuous culture and purpose.
Cons
High growth company and still lots of ongoing changes. Nothing a-typical for a company at this size in such a hot space, but not for the faint of heart.
1 - 5.0Oct 4, 2017Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee
Pros
Hot space with awesome technology solving big, tangible, real problems. Exceptional, inclusive, fun culture. one of the best i've had the pleasure of taking part in.
Cons
typical growing pains and speed bumps as a startup in a highly competitive space
1 - 5.0Sep 5, 2017Anonymous EmployeeCurrent EmployeeSan Francisco, CA
Pros
I am pretty inspired to work at CoreOS because I work among some of the smartest people that are continually pushing the envelope. And I get to see how our technology (both open source and enterprise products) are changing the way companies operate internally to get applications to market. What inspires me: -Team dynamics, the team always comes together on a common goal to deliver amazing work -People are continually pushing themselves to do their best work -Team events across all offices (SF, Berlin and NYC) to celebrate work well-done -Great culture of people focused on making CoreOS a wonderful place to work for all people
Cons
We're a fast growing company so we have growing pains like all fast growing companies. But nothing that sticks out to me as unusual.
1 - 5.0Jul 27, 2017Anonymous EmployeeCurrent Employee, more than 1 yearSan Francisco, CA
Pros
-great leadership - best CEO\CTO duo ever -great team - extremely bright folks at all levels and teams -great culture - take great joy in saying that CoreOS puts a huge emphasis in company culture and working environment, its paying off !
Cons
-Snacks are way too healthy! -Issues with getting everyone to be aligned and focus on GTM plan - call it growing pains
2 - 5.0Jul 11, 2017Software Engineer InternFormer Employee, less than 1 yearSan Francisco, CA
Pros
- awesome CEO, CTO - awesome management - still small - very friendly employees - good culture - Golang - little bureaucracy - amazing work/life balance
Cons
- compensation was not very competitive (at least for interns and for what I heard from new hires), granted the company was still quite young when I worked there
4 - 4.0Feb 3, 2021GTMFormer Employee
Pros
"Valley" company. Lots of talent. Focused on solid contributions to the community.
Cons
Young space (if this is even a con?)
- 4.0Aug 10, 2020Anonymous EmployeeFormer Employee, more than 3 years
Pros
Great technology, great people, room to grow and learn.
Cons
Like any rapidly growing startup, was sometimes confusing to figure out what you should even be working on at a given time.
- 2.0Dec 6, 2017EngineerCurrent Employee, less than 1 yearSan Francisco, CA
Pros
Most of the reviews here are from people close to the founders, but there are a few true statements: Smart & Good people in most departments High energy Great space (containers!)
Cons
Current management is incredibly weak on business, culture and people management / interaction. Behavior at times is almost like an episode of a sitcom - people acting the way they think they should based on a character rather than acting with intelligence or maturity. Based on these shortcomings they have made some moves on the executive front, bringing in more sales leaders and replacing others, none of which seem to have any idea what they are doing in this space. I've also heard horror stories of individuals getting lectured or written up based on stuff taking place during after hours events etc. Leadership feels very petty and arbitrary.
1 - 1.0Aug 30, 2017SalesCurrent Employee, less than 1 yearSan Francisco, CA
Pros
Office in downtown San Francisco.
Cons
Poor Go to Market strategy that involves laying off entire sales teams 1 quarter after they were hired.
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